02123cam a2200277 a 45000010008000000030006000080050017000140080041000310100017000720200028000890400018001170500022001350820017001572450099001742600048002733000029003215040041003505050014003915050932004055200013013375200328013506500015016786500038016937000025017318560089017564343138AUA.120151112100952.0890323s1990 nyua b 000 0 eng  a 89003403  a0195059808 (alk. paper) aDLCcDLCdDLC00aBL 625b.P76 199000a291.4/2222004aThe Problem of pure consciousness :bmysticism and philosophy /cedited by Robert K.C. Forman. aNew York :bOxford University Press,c1990. a307 p. :bill. ;c22 cm. aIncludes bibliographical references. aContents: aIntroduction : mysticism, constructivism, and forgetting / Robert K.C. Forman -- I. The empirical investigation. The unseen seer and the field : consciousness in Sāṃkhya and yoga / Christopher Chapple -- Pure consciousness and Indian Buddhism / Paul J. Griffiths -- Eckhart, Gezücken, and the ground of the soul / Robert K.C. Forman -- Ayin : the concept of nothingness in Jewish mysticism / Daniel C. Matt. II. The philosophical investigation. Contemporary epistemology and the study of mysticism / Daniel Rothberg -- Mysticism and its contexts / Philip C. Almond -- Are pure consciousness events unmediated? / Stephen Bernhardt -- Does the philosophy of mysticism rest on a mistake? / Anthony N. Perovich, Jr. -- On the possibility of pure consciousness / Mark B. Woodhouse -- Is mystical experience everywhere the same? / Norman Prigge and Gary E. Kessler -- Experience and interpretation in mysticism / R.L. Franklin. aSummary: aThis collection of contributed essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience as a constructed and mediated product of previously held beliefs and concepts. Forman and his colleagues argue for the existence of a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines. 0aMysticism. 0aConsciousnessxReligious aspects.1 aForman, Robert K. C.423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/89003403-d.html